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The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited
Brañas Garza, Pablo; García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, the former are more effective than the latter. Specifically, it is shown that beliefs in heaven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823002
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Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries
Wößmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal system, but pursue different education policies. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566777
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Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games
Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M.T.; Strobel, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Existing experimental research on behavior in weakest-link games shows overwhelmingly the inability of people to coordinate on the efficient equilibrium, especially in larger groups. We hypothesize that people are able to coordinate on efficient outcomes, provided they have sufficient freedom to...
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Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems
Wibral, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884234
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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping
Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different...
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … punishment among individuals during Ramadan, even when the degree of their religiosity varied. However, less religious people did …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369116
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The Limits of Self-Governance in the Presence of Spite: Experimental Evidence from Urban and Rural Russia
Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 … cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is substantial spiteful punishment of high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763774
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Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups
Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan; Sutter, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to … prisoner's dilemma game with in-group as opposed to out-group members. They also use a costly punishment option to selectively … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes antisocial, harming cooperative …
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New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment
Cheung, Stephen L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy … contribute more unequally. Contingent punishment strategies are found to increase with decreasing contributions by the target …
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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...
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